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Once upon a time Chuck Mead shaped the electrons to say...
>Anyway, Raleigh has plenty of PRI available.  I've not had my hands on a TNT
>or a 4004 so I'm stuck reading spec's.  Assuming money was no object, the
>TNT would probably be best, right?  How many DS0's can it handle (I can't
>remember from the spec's)?

TNT?  Before I start I WORK FOR LIVINGSTON AND YES WE COMPETE WITH ASCEND.
Wanted to make sure that was clear.

Ok.  Avoid the TNT for now.  I'm on the ascend-users list (you can
subscribe my emailing majordomo@xmission.com with 'subscribe ascend-users'
in the body) and there have been many reports of people going BACK to
MAX4000s chassis because the TNT was having major issues with large 
numbers of DS0s.  Now, they seem to be working ok for some, but I've
talked to people who ended up picking a stack of Livingston PM-3s rather
than use TNTs.

A TNT doing ISDN only can go up to 672 DS0s.  With modems it can go up to
288 modems.

Shop around first.
Ascend MAX 4000 and MAX TNT, Livingston PortMaster-3, 3Com/USR Total
Control and TC Hi-Per Access, Cisco AS5200/AS5300, Bay Networks 5000 MSX,
and ACC Tigris.  

Decide what you need upfront.  ISDN?  Modems?  OSPF?  BGP?  Any leased 
lines?

And don't take my word on the TNT.  Seriously.  Get on the users list
and ask the users directly.

-MZ
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